LAGOS MARCH 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)- – Islamic State faced imminent defeat in its final enclave on Tuesday as hundreds of jihadist fighters and their families surrendered and the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said the battle was as good as over. A Reuters journalist in Baghouz saw hundreds of people surrendering to the SDF, which launched its…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWRANGERS)-Former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said he believes there are some Democrats who could defeat President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election. Ryan, in one of his first public appearances after retiring from Congress, weighed in on Trump’s chances and reflected on his tenure in Congress during a Monday…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Rev Vincent Mulwa, a theologian and G.O of Christ Pilgrim Restoration Centre, Kenya, has come out to challenge the widely-held Christian doctrine that men should only marry one wife. In an interview with Newsmen, Rev. Mulwa said Africans bought the world views of European missionaries who brought Christianity into Africa and abandoned…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An unemployed New Jersey man won a $273m (£210m) Mega Millions lottery jackpot last week after a stranger found and returned the winning ticket he had left behind on a shop counter. The man, Michael J Weirsky, told reporters on Thursday he lost two tickets immediately after he bought them at a…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)– China and Indonesia grounded their fleets of Boeing’s 737 MAX 8 aircraft on Monday as witnesses recalled the terrifying spectacle of smoke and debris trailing from an Ethiopian Airlines plane before it crashed killing 157 people. The disaster came just months after a jet of the same model came down in…
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Thai billionaire and big farm owner, Arnon Rodthong on Tuesday rolled out surprise as he promised a whopping sum £240,000 – as well as his entire estate – to the man who marries his 26-year-old virgin daughter. The 50-year old who owns a prosperous durian fruit farm in Chumphon province, southern…
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Every Woman Treaty, an NGO representing women’s rights advocates in 128 countries, has launched a campaign for a global treaty to combat the worldwide pandemic of violence against women and girls. “Violence against women and girls is a global crisis that occurs in every nation and takes many forms. At least one…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian woman, 25 years-old Princess Okoye excreted fifteen pellets of cocaine at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi on Sunday, The lady who was travelling to Italy was reported to have equally hid 77 pellets of suspected narcotics in packets that had been hidden in two bottles of milk. “Upon…